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(Re)Start me up!
This post was originally published as part of the Java Advent series. There are cases where you would like to start a Java process identical to the current one (or at least using the the same JVM with tweaked parameters). Some concrete cases where this would be useful: Auto-tuning the maximum memory parameters (ie. you…
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Writing beautiful code – not just for the aesthetic value
This article was originally published in the 6th edition of TodaySoftMag in Romanian and on the Transylvania JUG blog in English. Reprinted here with the permission of the author / magazine. Most mainstream programming languages contain a large set of features and diverse standard libraries. Because of this it becomes important to know not only…
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A (mostly) cross-platform clickable map of Romanian counties
TL;DR – I’ve created a map of Romania’s counties (judete) using Javascript which can be used as an alternative for drop-down boxes during form input. It works great with FF and Chrome :-). See it in action and browse the source code. The map is based on the SVG drawings from Wikimedia Commons postprocessed in…
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Every end is a new beginning
TL;DR: I’m shutting down the twitfeeder project (it was on lifesupport for a long time) so I mirrored a technical article from the blog in the hope that it might be useful for somebody someday. Proxying URL fetch requests from the Google App Engine Hosting on the Google App Engine means giving up a lot…
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Helper for testing multi-threaded programs in Java
This post was originally published on the Transylvania JUG blog. Testing multi-threaded code is hard. The main problem is that you invoke your assertions either too soon (and they fail for no good reason) or too late (in which case the test runs for a long time, frustrating you). A possible solution is to declare…
